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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.

Viktor Frankl

Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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Beloved Importance Love Person Physical Spiritual
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
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Assignment Carry Demand Fulfillment Life Mission Purpose
Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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Attain Business Goals Motivational Strive
You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Creation Detect Inspirational Mission Travel
Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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Acknowledgement Belief Believe Conscience Obey Tolerance
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Human Nature Live People
Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be.
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Contrubution Discover Individual Life
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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Attitude Choose Circumstance Freedom Human Man
I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Bad Deed Done Forget Good Grudge
A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.
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Determination Each Other Human Being Ultimate
The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.
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Deep Forget Human Life Person
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Flourish Health Human Key Meaning Mental
A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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Concern Disease Existence Man Mental Worth
The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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Choose Respond
Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Dedication Effect Happiness Oneself Personal Success Unexpected
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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Absolute Done Himself Honesty Judgment Man Same Situation

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